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The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition
by James Howard Kunstler  
Powells.com Staff Pick If civilization began, as it's often said, with the appearance of the first city, it stands to reason that the character of our cities can tell us a great deal about the state of our civilization. With this as his central premise, James Howard...
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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
by Mark Salzman
Powells.com Staff Pick "In this important and powerful book, Salzman invites us inside LA's Central Juvenile Hall where he teaches a writing class for violent juvenile offenders. Through classroom conversations and through the boys' own writing we get an overwhelming and...
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To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife
by Caitlin Flanagan
Powells.com Staff Pick Caitlin Flanagan is stirring the pot once again with her provocative take on modern motherhood. Drawn from articles written for the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, Flanagan's musings range from the irony of a white wedding to the odd rise in sexless...
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Profoundly Disturbing: The Shocking Movies That Changed History
by Joe Bob Briggs
Powells.com Staff Pick Joe Bob is as irreverent as ever as he explores the films that, as the title implies, were received by critics and public alike as "profoundly disturbing." No matter which film he's talking about, Briggs successfully conveys to the reader the cultural...
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Wall and Piece
by Banksy
Powells.com Staff Pick If there's any truth to Marshall McLuhan's prophecy that the next wars and revolutions of our time will be fought through media and not guns, then the ever mysterious and notorious graffiti artist called Banksy would be the most ready example of how one...
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A Death in Belmont
by Sebastian Junger
Powells.com Staff Pick An absorbing crime story about the Boston stranglings, Junger's exceptional narrative re-examines the killings of the early '60s, with a focus on one murder not associated with Albert DeSalvo, the convicted serial killer. A disturbing story on many...
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Never Drank the Kool-Aid: Essays
by Toure
Powells.com Staff Pick Wildly entertaining, Touré's profiles of some of pop culture's superstars penetrate the glitzy veneer offering insight into their truer selves. Fast paced, thoughtful, and often times laugh-out-loud funny, this enjoyable collection successfully...
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American Vertigo : Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville (06 Edition)
by Bernard-henri Levy
Powells.com Staff Pick Hoping to gauge the success of America's experiment in democracy, France's leading journalist follows Tocqueville's journey across our once nascent nation to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here in opposing and quick succession, we meet...
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Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
by Joel Garreau
Powells.com Staff Pick First, a definition: An "edge city" is a newish community where people work, shop, and recreate in suburbs close to freeway arterials. Local examples are Beaverton and Tigard. Author Joel Garreau spent four years exploring the edge cities of Houston, Los...
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
by Luc Sante
Powells.com Staff Pick While not crime fiction per se, Low Life is a great ride through the history of New York's underclass. Thieves, grifters, and skin-poppers abound, colossal gang wars destroy entire boroughs, and Sante's descriptions of life in the slums of the 1800's...
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Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
by Steve Almond
Powells.com Staff Pick Here's a great recipe: Take one often-obsessed-upon food item, one aptly named author, and an enormous amount of writing talent. Mix them all together and you have Candyfreak. A great book that melts in your mind, not in your hand. Danielle, Powells...
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Why Bother?: Getting a Life in a Locked-Down Land
by Sam Smith
Powells.com Staff Pick This book begins: "Let's turn off the television, step into the sunlight, and count the bodies." Smith starts by detailing the reasons many of us feel overwhelmed, and perhaps paralyzed, by what's going on in our different institutions. He then sucks you...
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Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
by Alissa Quart
Powells.com Staff Pick The perfect antidote for the post-holiday shopping hangover. In Branded, Alissa Quart dissects the insidious ways that corporations market directly to teens, targeting their basest desires (fitting in, making friends, celebrating freedom) and driving...
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Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
by Mark J. Penn and E. Kinney Zalesne
Powells.com Staff Pick Microtrends looks at our world through a cultural microscope. Does it seem like all of your friends are talking about home-schooling? Mark Penn's polling data shows us the currents flowing under our daily lives. Recommended by Indira, Powells.com...
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Part memoir, part meditation on crappy television, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is a raucous ride through the cultural wasteland of Generation X. Don't think, though, that this book's obsession with meaningless trivia is worthless. Chuck Klosterman's...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
by Luc Sante
Powells.com Staff Pick While not crime fiction per se, Low Life is a great ride through the history of New York's underclass. Thieves, grifters, and skin-poppers abound, colossal gang wars destroy entire boroughs, and Sante's descriptions of life in the slums of the 1800's...
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life : the History of the Disc Jockey (00 Edition)
by Bill Brewster
Powells.com Staff Pick The authors of this book attempt a grand feat of music history revisionism by positioning the figure of the disc jockey at the center of music development and technology throughout the course of the 20th century. Last Night A DJ Saved My Life...
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Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
by Sheldon Rampton
Powells.com Staff Pick Trust Us, We're Experts! blows the lid off so-called "third party" experts, hirelings of the corporate elite's who do transnationals' bidding under the guise of independence. Every time you hear "W" say "I want to make policy based on 'sound...
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Progress Paradox : How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (03 Edition)
by Gregg Easterbrook
Powells.com Staff Pick Here's a pick sure to shake up your next book club. Despite his sometimes sanctimonious tone, Easterbrook poses some very interesting questions about modern society and its inhabitants. Why does the middle class feel so discontented? Long on theories and...
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